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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-13

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Albro Heath was killed by falling on
circular saw at Woodsville, n. HI.
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MURDER in THE SECOND DEGREE

The Verdict in the Trial Of Graves al
Machfas.
MAcHIAs, Me-, May 1.-THE trial of
Graves for the murder Of the two game
wardens terminated last evening in YER
dict of murder in the second degree. The
prisoner betrayed no feeling. Sentence will
probably be passed to-day.
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T. Any pssson Who sakss newspapes regularly from
'he oce-whssher directed to his name anothers, or
whether he has subscribed not he is responsible for
the payment.
.. II person ordersa paper discontinued, he must
pay all arsarages the publisher may continue To send
itunli payment is made and collect the whole amoun',
whether the paper is taken from the Office or not,
B. The Courts have decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the post office, or 70
moving and leaving them uncalled Tor, is trima aei.
evidence Of fraud.
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$soo will b collected II not paid in advance.
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TIE NEWS CONDENSED.


Inursuoys may o.
Samuel Quint, of Topsham, Me-, aged 90,
hanged himself.
The East Maine Methodist conference is
In session at Bangor.
The Hfty-ffth annual convention Of the
Alpha Delta Phi fraternity was begun in
Boston.
The strike In the Pennsylvania coke re-
zion was inaugurated. Thirteen thousand
men are idle.
The office of The German Herald at New
York was set on fire again for the fifth time
within six weeks.
Fire at Philadelphia damaged the screen
and wood carpet factory Of J. w. Boughton
& Co., to the extent Of $4,000.
President Houston of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company will not, it is said, be
reelected at the approaching special meet
ing.
Brevet Maj. Gen. Simon G. Griffin,
U. 8. ", was elected commander Of the
Massachusetts, commandery Of the Loyal
Legion.
The New York assembly has passed the
bill providing that ten hours shall consti-
tute days work for all street car employees
in cities Of over 1OO, ,OOO inhabitants In that
state.
The Connecticut senate, in concurrence
with the house, passed resolutions appropri-
ating $4,000 for the statue Of Capt. John
Mason, the hero Of the war which exter-
minated the Pequots.
The Canadian Manufacturer association
have adopted resolution unanimously op-
posing any treaty between Canada and the
United States which would not admit Amer
ican manufactures free Of duty.
The Ohio commandery Of the Loyal
Legion unanimously chose Gen. w. T.
Sherman for commander, Gen. R. B. Hayes,
WHO has served in that capacity for four
years, having declined reelection.
The naval life board, after a thorough
examination Of all models submitted, has
made report to the secretary Of the navy,
in which it states that no1ife boat suitable
for use on men-of-war has yet been found.
The president has appointed Isaac J. Cox,
Of New York, J. w. Doane, of Chicago,
William X. Carlisle, Of Kansas, commits
sioners to examine and report upon thirty
four miles Of the Northern Pacific railroad.
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Boston, May II.

Marion Harland, the popular story teller
and writer on domestic topics, true and
sensible woman, has lately told the story of
the repetition in Virginia house of the
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-05-13

incidents Of ghastly murder, sound for
sound and deed for deed being rehearsed at
night by unsubstantial actors before two
young men, who were unacquainted with
the history of the house. Marion Harland
evidently believes that these witnesses speak
truly, and those who have ever known this
admirable writer in her domestic life will
trust her keen observation. The faith Of
Others may be helped by the knowledge that
she is the wife Of an eminent clergyman.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-03-24
Baptist Ministers Conference.

This Conference will be held in the Bap-
tist church at Tarboro, n. c., April 18th
to 14th. The following is the programme:
Introductory Sermon-by Rev. r. Van
deventer, of Henderson, n G.
North Carolina and the Baptists-by
Rev. j. d. Hufham, D. D., of Scotland
Neck, N. c., and Rev. c. E. Taylor, ID.
D., President of Wake Forest College,
Wake Forest, n. G.
Denominational Strength-by Rev. T.
E. Skinner, D. D., Raleigh, N. O., and
Rev. J. NJ McManaway, Wilson, N. G.
The Sunday School Idea-by Col. J. NJ
Heck, Raleigh, N. G and, Rev. J. L. White,
Pastor First Baptist church, Raleigh, N. c.
and Rev. Geo. J. Dowell, Hamilton, n c.
Education and the Ministry-by Rev. T..
H. Pritchard, d. D., Pastor First Baptist
church, Wilmington, N. c., and Rev r. T
Vann, Wake Forest College, N. G.
The Labor Question and the Churches
by Rev. Thos. Dixon, Goldsboro, N. g.,
and Rev. A. J. Hires, kinston, N. G.
Denominational Literature-by Rev. G.
T. Bailey, d. D., editor Biblical Recorder.
Raleigh, N. c., and Rev. I. J. Taylor,
Warrenton, N. G.
The Proper Attitude of the Churches
Toward the Temperance Movement-by
Rev. Baylus Cade, Louisburg, N. c., Rev.
@. Durham, Durham, n. c.
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A Through Line Railroad.

The talk in railroad circles now is to the
effect that work is to begin at Monroe on
through line railroad from Richmond to
Atlanta. Col. Olds, writing to the Rich
mond Dispatch, says:
Work is to begin at once or the line
from Monroe, N. c., to Atlanta, Ga, and
combine the lines from Richmond to
Petersburg, Petersburg to Ridgeway,
Ridgway to Raleigh, Raleigh to Hamlet,
Hamlet to Monroe and Monroe to Atlanta,
and see what a straight line you get.
Then there will be another through line,
the same as that above named, save that
at Hamlet it will extend to Cheraw, S. c.,
and thence via Augusta, Ga, make south
ern connections. The Hamlet Cheraw
link is known as the d" Palmetto - road,
and is twenty miles long. 1t is completed
to the bridge over the Pee Dee river, a
mile this side of Cheraw, and early this
spring will run into Cheraw Augusta is
its objective point. This link, as well as
the one from Petersburg to Ridgeway, is
owned by Mr.. Moncure Robinson, who
will get the right of way over the Raleigh
and CASTOR and Raleigh and Augusta
roads. You may not believe it, but
really expect to see a doubletrack road
between Richmond and Raleigh in less
than four years.
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RALEIGH, N. c.. THURSDAY, MARCH "a, 1887

of the cooperative companies of New
England amounts to between $6, 600, 600
and 81, 900, OOO."
The history of profit sharing in New
England is one of the most interesting and
valuable features of this monograph. Dr.
Bemis not only notes the companies which
share profits with their employees, but he
gives in detail the plans adopted. The
good results are manifest. The interests
of employer and employee become mutual
and the result is that ''an increased care
and diligence on the part of the employees
can be seen" Profit sharing is rapidly
gaining ground in New England and dur
ing the last few months the system has
been-adopted in several large manufacture
ing establishments.
The statistical tables given at the close
of the monograph, showing the present
status of co operation i'll New England.
are in themselves, worthy of review did
the limits of this article permit. Scientific
Investigations like this can but do good
and the American Economic Association is
performing valuable service in publishing
to the world the results of such enquiries.
c. l.. SMITH
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old girl, who was placed under his care
tor treatment. The crime was committed
one week ago, and to-day the doctor was
arraigned. Just after the examination
had closed, and Randall had been placed
under 5000 bond, the brother of the
girl pulled out revolver, and, before any
person was aware of his intention, shot
randall dead. "A your z woman was
shot and fatally wounded at Charlottes
Nllle, va by young man handling an
''unloaded" pistol w. L. Royau. conn
sci for foreign bond holders at Richmond
va, mas been convicted of intimidating
grand Jurors. A man named Foster
Shot at mouse in his cabin at White
bread, Indian Territory; the ball from the
pistol struck can of powder, which ex-
ploded, blew the cabin to pieces, killed
TWO children and injured Foster and his
wife.
Wednesday, March 23.
Both houses of the Virginia General AS
sembly to-day passed the bill leealizinp
S4O, OOO, 600 of capital stock of the Rich,
mond and West Point Terminal COMPANY
heretofore issued by the said Company.
-. The President has appointed the fol-
lowing interstate commerce commission
ers: Thos. NJ Cooley, of Michigan, for a
term of six years; William r. Morrison,
iilinols, Hve years; Augustus Schoon-
maker, of New York, four years; Aldace
r; Walker, of Vermont, three years;
walter l.. Bragg, of Alabama, two years.
lit now transpires that Lawton, who
swnded the Nayassa Guano Co.. was en-
tangled with rich widow. ''My son
beware of vidders - The col
lection of internal revenue for the first
eight months of the fiscal year were S74,-
s4s, S6S- nearly a million less than the
collections during the corresponding
period of The last fiscal year. . The cee,
bration Of the Goth anniversary of the
birth OF Emperor William in Berlin was a
grand affair; the city decorated as it never
was before; the churches were all opened
and crowded; there were long professions
ana immense crowds in the streets.
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Confessions of Criminals.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.1

Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE.l
KINsToN, n. c., March 81, 1887. Il wish
simply to endorse your views concerning
the public execution of criminals. have
always heard it said people Twill go to a
hanging" and verify it seemeth to be true.
There is nothing good in witnessing such
horrible scenes. But wanted to say that
| disapprove of giving to the public,
through the press, the religious confessions
of criminals on the scaffold. l have never
heard of a negro being hung anywhere
however dark his crime-but he always
tells the people he is going straight to
Heaven | submit that it is a sad com
ment on religion and the inhabitants of
Heaven-that all criminals go there, ac
cording to their confession. do not be-
lieve any such stuff and don't believe
such confessions should find their way to
the public through the papers.
These murderers who die on the scaffold
for high crime go down instead of gong
to glory, and the Bible means something
when it declares, "That no murderer hath
eternal life abiding in him"
N. NJ. JURNEY.
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DRUMMERS WILL PAY TAX.

As we stated in last weeks CHRONICLE
the State Treasurer will continue to de-
mand the payment of the drummers tax
as provided by the laws of North Carolina
until there is decision of the United
States Supreme Court specifically ordering
him not to do so. The following circular
letter issued. March 22nd, explains itself:
RALEIGH, n. c., March %, 1887.
This department is daily receiving in
uuries as to the effect of a recent decision
Of the Supreme Court of the United States
upon the license tax, commonly known as
the s'Drummers' Tax" That decision was
upon the construction of local statute of
the State of Tennessee, containing many
provisions materially different from those
in the North Carolina statute.
The sections in our revenue act impos-
ing this tax have quite recently been be-
fore our own courts-State VS.. Long, 70 N.
c. Rep, and after full argument and
thorough consideration the Supreme Court
of North Carolina decided that they were
not in conflict with the Constitution of the
United States Until this judgment is re-
versed by some competent tribunal 1t Will
be recognized as the law by this depart
ment, and the prompt collection of the tax
referred to will be required of all persons
charged Herewith.
D. w Balm State Treasurer.
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PROGRESS AND FAILURE.
1t is All Humbug to Work Ourselves
to Death.

1t is All a Humbug to Work Ourselves
to Death.
Especial Cor. STATE CHRoNICLE.1
WILLIS CREEK, Bladen Co., N. c., Mar.
12, 1SS7.-I am writing for the CHRONI-
Gle, your last issue not yet to hand.
This season of the year, when there is
plenty of water in the river, we have semi
weekly mails, and a weekly paper should
get here with two chances. But in the
Summer time, when water is scarce, it's a
sort of ''tri- weekly, '''try to get through one
week and back the next, and we become
accustomed to disappointment. The spirit
of this age of rail aud wire communica-
tion has not reached here, and you can
class us among the slow and antiquated.
Material progress is but rush after
mammon, the faster and hotter the pur-
suit the gre the progress. Is there
really not mt1e contentment where the
mails are slow and travel tardy, and does
not the increased facilities sharpen the de-
sire for gain? Is not the man who shaves
at IL o'clock NJ. Saturday, puts on a clean
shirt and walks, with his knotty hickory,
two miles to the post office, once week,
as happy as the fellow who slips out on
the piazza at sun rise for the daily and has
the leisure to get back into bed to read it!
And as the Morning Star headed its recent
editorial, Education a Grand Failure. -
Now We say amt progress grand fail
ure? The occupant of the two wheel cart
who starts to town the night before, with
his pillow slip of cold potatoes and biscuit
and enough fodder for soft seat for him
self and a bait for his horse, is as happy
with his jug OF corn juice tied to the axle
returning home. as the silk umbrella gen
try with his bottle of Stuart's rye and a
plenty of real Hayannas in his pocket, re-
tt., L..
dies.
Education humbug, more education
more crime, more progress more discOn-
tent. Everybody cranky for education,
wishing to keep from being left, working
from daylight till dark, too busy even to
go to see a sick neighbor, planting too
much cotton, bringing down the price and
proving that it's all a humbug to work
ourselves to death. Three million bales
will bring us as much money as seven, so
the South has just SO much money laid up
for her cotton and will get it, let the guam
tity be much or little. So l say, let's stop
and take breathing spell, and go to see
our neighbors, and get to work later and
come in earlier Emerson said the human
family We're as lazy as they dared to be,
but l believe if we'd all stop work for Il
year, nobody would suffer for necessary
food-there is enough charity to divide
round with those who are needy.
Well, | have seen nothing recently from
our friend W. H p. and miss his letters very
much. In conclusion send me copy of
your last issue. | want TO see if the Leg
islature has adjourned. | heard old man
Brogden said it broke up in big row, but
I'll know all about it when the CHRONICLE
gets here.
CUPID.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics.

RALEIGH, n. c., March 1S, 1S87.-At
the recent session of the Legislature an
act was passed creating Bureau of Labor
Statistics for North Carolina. The pur-
pose of the bureau as defined in the act
Is as follows:
The said Commissioner shall collect
information upon the subject of labor, its
relation to capital, the hours of labor, the
earnings Of laboring men and women,
their educational, moral and financial con-
dition and the best means of promoting
their mental, material, social and moral
prosperity. x
The Commissioner shall annually publish
report in pamphlet form and send or
cause to be sent copy of the same to
every newspaper published in this State
a copy to each member of the General
Assembly of North Carolina, copy to
each of the several States and county of
hcers of the State, copy to any citizen
who may apply for the same either per
sonally or by mail, and one hundred copies
to each of the several labor organizations
which may be in existence at the time of
the publication of the report, in this State
He shall also make full report to each
session of the General Assembly of the in
formation collected and collated by him
and containing such recommendations as
he may deem calculated to promote the
efficiency of the bureau The Commits
sioier is hereby directed to endeavor to
publish an accurate list of all the news
papers in the State, and whether the same
be published daily or weekly, and to for
ward to each and all copy of his report
promptly upon its being published; he is
also directed to diligently inquire after
the labor organizations of the State and
to see that none are omitted in the distri-
button of the reports: he is further direct
ed to cor fine his laDors to this State"
From the foregoing It will be seen that
the purpose of the Legislature in establish
ing the bureau was to place before the
people Of our State as far as the same can
be done. the moral educational and finan-
clal condition of the working people of
North Carolina. To do this a great
amount of information must be gathered
from many sources. A large part of this
information must be collected by CORE
spondence. Following the plan adopted
by other State bureaus, blanks have been
prepared, with questions, which, if an
swered VIII elicit the information designed
to be obtained by the act creating the
bureau. Those in the State who may be
interested in the work for which the
bureau was created, whether they be en-
ployers or employees, landlords or tenants,
are solicited as correspondents, and any
such to whom this notice may come are
requested to send their names on postal
card to the bureau Of Labor Statistics
Raleigh, n. c." The above mentioned
blanks will be sent to those who apply,
with return stamped envelope, in which
replies will be expected to questions asked.
Correspondents will receive the reports
and publications of the department, and
any information it can give relating to its
work. W. N. JONES,
Com Bureau Labor Statistics
(State papers please copy)
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In the Arkansas Legislature.
[From Arkansaw Traveller. I


Member from Sandstone Knob.-"Nr
Speaker, l hope, sir, that you will let me
have few minutes time in which to place
myself square on the record Yesterday
evening Mr.. Buckley Brown, from Gum
Bottoms, said that | had accepted the
present of a new hat from the railroad
superintendent, and limited in a way
inclined to string sensitive man, that |
had practically sold myself should like
to know Ii there Is anything in our consti-
tuition that prevents man from accepting
presents. | say there is not, and, sir,
when our constitution arises and SAYS that
shan't take everything that is given to
me, ti4en will say, Mr.. Constitution, at
tend to your own affairs hr. Speaker,
| am present taker, and as al encourage
ment to those who contemplate giving me
something, let me say my cap city for tax
ing presents, although well do velopcd, has
not been overtaxed l may also say that
the man who won't take hat and thereby
save himself the expense of buying one, is
composed of mixture of fool, liar and
thief. I'd be afraid to meet such a man
away out in the woods. Iwoud feel sure
that he would knock me down and rob me-
L know OF an affair in my county that
strongly illustrates the dishonesty of men
who are afraid to accept presents. \
icu- UCtIucu 1cllOW uaileu lISOn, Went
to work for old man CLARK, and made
himself so useful that Clark, who well
knew how to appreciate merit, went to
him and said
WATSON, | never had man that /
think more of than l do you
"'Much obleeged to you, replied Wat
son.
'''And l have decided Clark contin-
ued, to give you my daughter, Lorena'
"'Much obleeged to you, said Watson,
but | amt acceptin' any presents
"Well, Mr. Speaker, that man was so
honest that he would not accept the
daughter as present, but the next cay
he ran away with Clarks wife, Since
then have been extremely suspicious of
men who are too high-toned to accept
presents, and to keep other fair-mnded
men from suspecting me, have deter
mined to refuse nothing.
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Trinity College.
concord Times.

Although commencement s nearly three
months n the future, yet the boys are be-
ginning to anticipate that fascinating oc-
casion. The students have elected as
chief marshal for commencement Mr.. }. j.
Scarboro, and as chief manager Mr.. J. A.
Ragan. Bishop Duncan has accepted the
invitation to preach the commencement
sermon, Hon. A. NJ. Waddell, of Will
mington, has accepted the invitation to
deliver the address, and Rev. F. L. Reid,
of Raleigh, has been elected to preach be-
fore the Theological Society.
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WHAT CONGRESS DID.

The New York Herald sums up the work
of the last Congress by enumerating the
following as the most important bills
passed:
l. Settling the succession to the Presi-
dency.
p Regulating the counting of the cleo
toral vote.
g. Repeating the tenure of Office act.
f. Forfeiting and restoring to the pub
lie domain about fifty millions of acres of
land
5. Prohibiting the ownership of land by
aliens.
effectively dealing with the crime of
polygamy.
T. Referring all private claims to the
court of claims.
8. Ordering a thorough inquiry into the
affairs and management of the Pacific
railroads
g. Authorizing the President to deal
with the fishery troubles.
10. Regulating Inter State Commerce.
II. Reducing the fees on postal money
orders.
12. Extending the free delivery system
to cities of 10, 900 inhabitants.
13 Relieving the merchant marine of a
number Of vexatious and needless burdens.
IA. Kedeeming trade dollars.
10. Prohibiting the use of convict labor
on public buildings.
16. Ordering the adjustment of railroad
land grants.
II. Allotting lands in severalty to In
dians.
1s. Authorizing the issue of small silver
certificates.
49, Giving money for Congressional
library